Importance of Van der Waals interaction for organic molecule-metal junctions: Adsorption of thiophene on Cu(110) as a prototype

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Sony, Priya ^a   Puschnig, Peter ^a   Nabok, Dmitrii ^a   Ambrosch Draxl, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; CHARGE TRANSFER; COPPER; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PHYSISORPTION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ADSORPTION ENERGY; EXCHANGE CORRELATION FUNCTION; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS;

THIOPHENE;

EID: 35548932867     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.176401     Document Type: Article

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